Meet Ryan Monahan

Ryan Monahan exploded onto the digital strategy scene in the early 2000’s by catching the eye of Fortune 100 companies such as Brunswick Corporation, 20th Century Fox, Konami, and Sega Amusements. With the ability to leverage forward thinking and strategic execution, he was quickly assigned as a project manager to technological groundbreaking projects that spanned multiple countries.

Ryan’s drive, creativity and focus caught the attention of both well funded startups and long-standing corporations that needed the ability to remain ahead of the technology curve by remaining compliant with current technology standards; while simultaneously evolving his technologies for the future. He founded a Search Engine Optimization firm in the heart of Chicago immediately following the launch of Google seeing the value and opportunity of placement. His firm was one of the first agencies approved on the Google AdWords platform as certified partners.

As technology advanced and mobile devices entered the market place Ryan Monahan completely pivoted the focus of his team from search to content creation and advanced analytics of user behavior around 2010. With the increased ability to reach more users he invested heavily in the logic that content would become the world’s next undervalued commodity. This proved true in 2013 as Fortune 100 & 500 companies started valuing Social Networks as more than just a channel; but yet the ability to communicate with their direct consumers in a more informal setting.

Ryan began speaking about his ‘value first’ attention hacking concept in late 2012 to exclusive executives. Over the last 36 months Ryan and his partnership team have: Invested over $15,000,000 on marketing tests Generated tens of millions of unique visitors Sent well over a BILLION emails, and Run approximately 3,000 split and multi-variant tests.

Today, Ryan continues to speak about the ‘value first’ strategy that has evolved into an automated machine across multiple social networks to remain competitive in today’s marketplace, but also the value in continued education in the evolving technological marketing space. Today, his team is partners with some of the largest, most recognized brands across 68 different countries.

Since 2014 he’s been a pivotal piece in the continued training of today’s digital marketing strategies and understanding the relationship between human behavior and consumer buying trends. In 2016, he was part of an exciting launch of an online certification portal that covers the 8 key fundamental aspects of digital marketing.